Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter R - Page 43
Repellent (a.) 擊退的；驅除的；抵禦的；排斥的；令人厭惡的；令人反感的 [（+to）]；防水的 Driving back; able or tending to repel.
Repellent (n.) [U] [C] 防水劑；驅蟲劑 That which repels.
Repellent (n.) (Med.) A remedy to repel from a tumefied part the fluids which render it tumid. -- Dunglison.
Repellent (n.) A kind of waterproof cloth. -- Knight.
Repellent (a.) Serving or tending to repel; "he became rebarbative and prickly and spiteful"; "I find his obsequiousness repellent" [syn: rebarbative, repellent, repellant].
Repellent (a.) Highly offensive; arousing aversion or disgust; "a disgusting smell"; "distasteful language"; "a loathsome disease"; "the idea of eating meat is repellent to me"; "revolting food"; "a wicked stench" [syn: disgusting, disgustful, distasteful, foul, loathly, loathsome, repellent, repellant, repelling, revolting, skanky, wicked, yucky].
Repellent (a.) Incapable of absorbing or mixing with; "a water-repellent fabric"; "plastic highly resistant to steam and water" [syn: repellent, resistant].
Repellent (n.) A compound with which fabrics are treated to repel water [syn: repellent, repellant].
Repellent (n.) A chemical substance that repels animals [syn: repellent, repellant].
Repellent (n.) The power to repel; "she knew many repellents to his advances" [syn: repellent, repellant].
Repeller (n.) 反射極；斥拒極 [電機工程]；再生中繼器，再生轉發器 [通訊工程] One who, or that which, repels.
Repent (a.) (Bot.) [植] 匍匐生根的 Prostrate and rooting; -- said of stems. -- Gray.
Repent (a.) (Zool.) [動] 爬行的 Same as Reptant.
Repented (imp. & p. p.) of Repent.
Repenting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Repent.
Repent (v. i.) 悔悟，悔改；後悔，懊悔 [（+of）]；【宗】懺悔 [（+of）] To feel pain, sorrow, or regret, for what one has done or omitted to do.
First she relents With pity; of that pity then repents. -- Dryden.
Repent (v. i.) To change the mind, or the course of conduct, on account of regret or dissatisfaction.
Lest, peradventure, the people repent when they see war, and they return to Egypt. -- Ex. xiii. 17.
Repent (v. i.) (Theol.) To be sorry for sin as morally evil, and to seek forgiveness; to cease to love and practice sin.
Except ye repent, ye shall likewise perish. -- Luke xii. 3.
Repent (v. t.) 悔悟，悔改；對……感到後悔；【宗】懺悔 To feel pain on account of; to remember with sorrow.
I do repent it from my very soul. -- Shak.
Repent (v. t.) To feel regret or sorrow; -- used reflexively.
My father has repented him ere now. -- Dryden.
Repent (v. t.) To cause to have sorrow or regret; -- used impersonally.
[Archaic] "And it repented the Lord that he had made man on the earth." -- Gen. vi. 6.
Repent (v.) Turn away from sin or do penitence [syn: repent, atone].
Repent (v.) Feel remorse for; feel sorry for; be contrite about [syn: repent, regret, rue].
Repentance (n.) 悔悟；悔改；後悔；懺悔 [U] The act of repenting, or the state of being penitent; sorrow for what one has done or omitted to do; especially, contrition for sin. -- Chaucer.
Godly
sorrow worketh repentance to salvation. -- 2. Cor. vii. 20.
Repentance is a change of mind, or a conversion from sin to God. -- Hammond.
Repentance is the relinquishment of any practice from the conviction that it has offended God. Sorrow, fear, and anxiety are properly not parts, but adjuncts, of repentance; yet they are too closely connected with it to be easily separated. -- Rambler.
Syn: Contrition; regret; penitence; contriteness; compunction. See Contrition.
Repentance (n.) Remorse for your past conduct [syn: repentance, penitence, penance].
Repentance, () There are three Greek words used in the New Testament to denote repentance.
Repentance, () (1.) The verb _metamelomai_ is used of a change of mind, such as to produce regret or even remorse on account of sin, but not necessarily a change of heart. This word is used with reference to the repentance of Judas (Matt. 27:3).
Repentance, () (2.) Metanoeo, meaning to change one's mind and purpose, as the result of after knowledge. This verb, with (3) The cognate noun _metanoia_, is used of true repentance, a change of mind and purpose and life, to which remission of sin is promised.
Evangelical repentance consists of (1) A true sense of one's own guilt and sinfulness; (2) An apprehension of God's mercy in Christ; (3) an actual hatred of sin (Ps. 119:128; Job 42:5, 6; 2 Cor. 7:10) and turning from it to God; and (4) a persistent endeavour after a holy life in a walking with God in the way of his commandments.
The true penitent is conscious of guilt (Ps. 51:4, 9), Of pollution (51:5, 7, 10), and of helplessness (51:11; 109:21, 22). Thus he apprehends himself to be just what God has always seen him to be and declares him to be. But repentance comprehends not only such a sense of sin, but also an apprehension of mercy, without which there can be no true repentance (Ps. 51:1; 130:4).
Repentance, (n.) The faithful
attendant and follower of Punishment. It is usually manifest in a degree
of reformation that is not inconsistent with continuity of sin.
Desirous to avoid the pains of Hell, You will repent and join the Church,
Parnell? How needless! -- Nick will keep you off the coals And add
you to the woes of other souls. Jomater Abemy
Repentant (a.) 後悔的；悔改的 Penitent; sorry for sin. -- Chaucer.
Thus they, in lowliest plight, repentant stood. -- Millton.
Repentant (a.) Expressing or showing sorrow for sin; as, repentant tears; repentant ashes. "Repentant sighs and voluntary pains." -- Pope.
Repentant (n.) One who repents, especially one who repents of sin; a penitent.
Repentant (a.) Feeling or expressing remorse for misdeeds [syn: penitent, repentant] [ant: impenitent, unremorseful, unrepentant].
Repentantly (adv.) In a repentant manner.
Repentantly (adv.) Showing remorse [syn: penitently, penitentially, repentantly] [ant: impenitently, unrepentantly].
Repenter (n.) One who repents.
Repentingly (adv.) With repentance; penitently.
Repentless (a.) Unrepentant. [R.]
Repeople (v. t.) To people anew.
Reperception (n.) The act of perceiving again; a repeated perception of the same object.
No external praise can give me such a glow as my own solitary reperception and ratification of what is fine. -- Keats.
Repercussed (imp. & p. p.) of Repercuss.
Repercussing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Repercuss.
Repercuss (v. t.) To drive or beat back; hence, to reflect; to reverberate.
Perceiving all the subjacent country, . . . to repercuss such a light as I could hardly look against. -- Evelyn.
Repercuss (v.) Cause repercussions; have an unwanted effect.
Repercuss (I n British) (v. i.) To have or cause repercussions.
Repercuss (I n British) (v. t.) (Archaic) To drive back (sound, light, air, water, etc).
Repercussion (n.) 彈回；反衝；反響；反射；（常複數）後果；影響 The act of driving back, or the state of being driven back; reflection; reverberation; as, the repercussion of sound.
Ever echoing back in endless repercussion. -- Hare.
Repercussion (n.) (Mus.) Rapid reiteration of the same sound.
Repercussion (n.) (Med.) The subsidence of a tumor or eruption by the action of a repellent. -- Dunglison.
Repercussion (n.) (Obstetrics) In a vaginal examination, the act of imparting through the uterine wall with the finger a shock to the fetus, so that it bounds upward, and falls back again against the examining finger.
Repercussion (n.) A remote or indirect consequence of some action; "his declaration had unforeseen repercussions"; "reverberations of the market crash were felt years later" [syn: repercussion, reverberation].
Repercussion (n.) A movement back from an impact [syn: recoil, repercussion, rebound, backlash].
Repercussive (a.) Tending or able to repercuss; having the power of sending back; causing to reverberate.
Ye repercussive rocks! repeat the sound. -- W. Pattison.
Repercussive (a.) Repellent. [Obs.] "Blood is stanched by astringent and repercussive medicines." -- Bacon.
Repercussive (a.) Driven back; rebounding; reverberated. "Rages loud the repercussive roar." -- Thomson.
Repercussive (n.) A repellent. [Obs.] -- Bacon.
Repertitious (a.) Found; gained by finding. [Obs.]
Repertoire (n.) 【法】個人（或團體）的曲目（或戲目）：（某藝術領域的）全部作品；某人（或機器）的全部技能（或功能） A list of dramas, operas, pieces, parts, etc., which a company or a person has rehearsed and is prepared to perform.
Repertoire (n.) The entire range of skills or aptitudes or devices used in a particular field or occupation; "the repertory of the supposed feats of mesmerism"; "has a large repertory of dialects and characters" [syn: repertory, repertoire].
Repertoire (n.) A collection of works (plays, songs, operas, ballets) that an artist or company can perform and do perform for short intervals on a regular schedule [syn: repertoire, repertory].
Repertory (n.) A place in which things are disposed in an orderly manner, so that they can be easily found, as the index of a book, a commonplace book, or the like.
Repertory (n.) A treasury; a magazine; a storehouse.
Repertory (n.) （演奏家，劇團等的）保留節目彙演；個人（或團體）的曲目（或戲目）；輪演保留劇目的劇團（或劇院） Same as Repertoire.
Compare: Repertoire
R'epertoire (n.) [F. See Repertory.] 【法】個人（或團體）的曲目（或戲目）：（某藝術領域的）全部作品 A list of dramas, operas, pieces, parts, etc., which a company or a person has rehearsed and is prepared to perform.
Repertoire (n.) The entire range of skills or aptitudes or devices used in a particular field or occupation; "the repertory of the supposed feats of mesmerism"; "has a large repertory of dialects and characters" [syn: repertory, repertoire].
Repertoire (n.) A collection of works (plays, songs, operas, ballets) that an artist or company can perform and do perform for short intervals on a regular schedule [syn: repertoire, repertory].
Repertory (n.) A storehouse where a stock of things is kept.
Repertory (n.) The entire range of skills or aptitudes or devices used in a particular field or occupation; "the repertory of the supposed feats of mesmerism"; "has a large repertory of dialects and characters" [syn: repertory, repertoire].
Repertory (n.) A collection of works (plays, songs, operas, ballets) that an artist or company can perform and do perform for short intervals on a regular schedule [syn: repertoire, repertory].
Repertory. () This word is nearly synonymous with inventory, and is so called because its contents are arranged in such order as to be easily found. Clef des Lois Rom. h.t.; Merl. Repertoire, h.t.
Repertory. () In the French law, this word is used to denote the inventory or minutes which notaries are required to make of all contracts which take place before them. Dict. de Jur. h.t.
Reperusal (n.) A second or repeated perusal.
Reperuse (v. t.) To peruse again. -- Ld. Lytton.
Repetend (n.) (Math.) That part of a circulating decimal which recurs continually, ad infinitum: -- sometimes indicated by a dot over the first and last figures; thus, in the circulating decimal .728328328 + (otherwise .7..8...), the repetend is 283.
Compare: Decimal
Decimal (n.) A number expressed in the scale of tens; specifically, and almost exclusively, used as synonymous with a decimal fraction.
Circulating decimal, or Circulatory decimal, A decimal fraction in which the same figure, or set of figures, is constantly repeated; as, 0.354354354; -- called also recurring decimal, repeating decimal, and repetend.
Repetition (n.) 重複；反覆；重說；重做 [C] [U]；重複的事物；複製品，副本 [C] The act of repeating; a doing or saying again; iteration.
I need not be barren of accusations; he hath faults, with surplus to tire in repetition. -- Shak.
Repetition (n.) Recital from memory; rehearsal.
Repetition (n.) (Mus.) The act of repeating, singing, or playing, the same piece or part a second time; reiteration of a note.
Repetition (n.) (Rhet.) Reiteration, or repeating the same word, or the same sense in different words, for the purpose of making a deeper impression on the audience.
Repetition (n.) (Astron. & Surv.) The measurement of an angle by successive observations with a repeating instrument.
Syn: Iteration; rehearsal. See {Tautology}. Repetitional
Repetition (n.) An event that repeats; "the events today were a repeat of yesterday's" [syn: {repeat}, {repetition}].
Repetition (n.) The act of doing or performing again [syn: {repetition}, {repeating}].
Repetition (n.) The repeated use of the same word or word pattern as a rhetorical device.
Repetition (n.), Construction of wills. A repetition takes place when the same testator, by the same testamentary instrument, gives to the same legatee legacies of equal amount and of the same kind; in such case the latter is considered a repetition of the former, and the legatee is entitled to one life;" and in another part of the will he gives to the same legatee "an annuity of thirty pounds a year. 4 Ves. 79, 90; 1 Bro. C. C. 30, note.
Repetition (n.), Civil law. The act by which a person demands and seeks to recover what he has paid by mistake, or delivered on a condition which has not been performed. Dig. 12, 4, 5. The name of an action which lies to recover the payment which has been made by mistake, when nothing was due.
Repetition (n.) Repetition is never admitted in relation to natural obligations which have been voluntarily acquitted, if the debtor had capacity to give his consent. 6 Toull. n. 386. The same rule obtains in our law. A person who has voluntarily acquitted a natural or even a moral obligation, cannot recover back the money by an action for money had and received, or any other form of action. D. & R. N. P. C. 254; 2 T. R. 763; 7 T. R. 269; 4 Ad. & Ell. 858; 1 P. & D. 253; 2 L. R. 431; Cowp. 290; 3 B. & P. 249, note; 2 East, R. 506; 3 Taunt. R. 311; 5 Taunt. R. 36; Yelv. 41, b, note; 3 Pick. R. 207; 13 John. It. 259.
Repetition (n.) In order to entitle the payer to recover back money paid by mistake it must have been paid by him to a person to whom he did not owe it, for otherwise he cannot recover it back, the creditor having in such case the just right to retain the money. Repetitio nulla est ab eo qui suum recepit.
Repetition (n.) How far money paid under a mistake of law is liable to repetition, has been discussed by civilians, and opinions on this subject are divided. 2 Poth. Ob. by Evans, 369, 408 to 487; 1 Story, Eq. Pl. Sec. 111, note 2.
Repetition (n.), Scotch law. The act of reading over a witness deposition, in order that he may adhere to it, or correct it at his choice. The same as Recolement, (q.v.) in the French law. 2 Benth. on Ev. B. 3, c. 12, p. 239.
Repetitional (a.) Alt. of Repetitionary.
Repetitionary (a.) Of the nature of, or containing, repetition.
Repetitioner (n.) One who repeats.
Repetitious (a.) Repeating; containing repetition.
Repetitive (a.) Containing repetition; repeating.
Repetitor (n.) A private instructor.
Repine (v. i.) 【文】不滿；煩惱；埋怨，發牢騷 [（+at/ against）] To fail; to wane. [Obs.] "Reppening courage yields no foot to foe." -- Spenser.
Repine (v. i.) To continue pining; to feel inward discontent which preys on the spirits; to indulge in envy or complaint; to murmur.
But Lachesis thereat gan to repine. -- Spenser.
What if the head, the eye, or ear repined To serve mere engines to the ruling mind? -- Pope.
Repine (n.) Vexation; mortification. [Obs.] -- Shak.
Repine (v.) Express discontent.
Repiner (n.) One who repines.
Repiningly (adv.) With repening or murmuring.
Repkie (n.) Any edible sea urchin.
Replace (v. t.) 把……放回（原處）；取代；以……代替 [（+with/ by）]；歸還；償還 To place again; to restore to a former place, position, condition, or the like.
The earl . . . was replaced in his government. -- Bacon.
Replace (v. t.) To refund; to repay; to restore; as, to replace a sum of money borrowed.
Replace (v. t.) To supply or substitute an equivalent for; as, to replace a lost document.
With Israel, religion replaced morality. -- M. Arnold.
Replace (v. t.) To take the place of; to supply the want of; to fulfull the end or office of.
This duty of right intention does not replace or supersede the duty of consideration. -- Whewell.
Replace (v. t.) To put in a new or different place.
Note: The propriety of the use of replace instead of displace, supersede, take the place of, as in the third and fourth definitions, is often disputed on account of etymological discrepancy; but the use has been sanctioned by the practice of careful writers.
{Replaced crystal} (Crystallog.), A crystal having one or more planes in the place of its edges or angles.
Replace (v.) Substitute a person or thing for (another that is broken or inefficient or lost or no longer working or yielding what is expected); "He replaced the old razor blade"; "We need to replace the secretary that left a month ago"; "the insurance will replace the lost income"; "This antique vase can never be replaced."
Replace (v.) Take the place or move into the position of; "Smith replaced Miller as CEO after Miller left"; "the computer has supplanted the slide rule"; "Mary replaced Susan as the team's captain and the highest-ranked player in the school" [syn: {supplant}, {replace}, {supersede}, {supervene upon}, {supercede}].
Replace (v.) Put something back where it belongs; "replace the book on the shelf after you have finished reading it"; "please put the clean dishes back in the cabinet when you have washed them" [syn: {replace}, {put back}].
Replace (v.) Put in the place of another; switch seemingly equivalent items; "the con artist replaced the original with a fake Rembrandt"; "substitute regular milk with fat-free milk"; "synonyms can be interchanged without a changing the context's meaning" [syn: {substitute}, {replace}, {interchange}, {exchange}].
Replaceability (n.) The quality, state, or degree of being replaceable.
Replaceable (a.) Capable or admitting of being put back into a place.
Replaceable (a.) Admitting of having its place supplied by a like thing or an equivalent; as, the lost book is replaceable.
Replaceable (a.) Capable of being replaced (by), or of being exchanged (for); as, the hydrogen of acids is replaceable by metals or by basic radicals.
Replacement (n.) 代替，取代；更換；[U] 接替；歸還；[U] 賠還 The act of replacing.
Replacement (n.) The removal of an edge or an angle by one or more planes.
Replacement (n.) The act of furnishing an equivalent person or thing in the place of another; "replacing the star will not be easy" [syn: {replacement}, {replacing}].
Replacement (n.) Someone who takes the place of another person [syn: {surrogate}, {alternate}, {replacement}].
Replacement (n.) An event in which one thing is substituted for another; "the replacement of lost blood by a transfusion of donor blood" [syn: {substitution}, {permutation}, {transposition}, {replacement}, {switch}].
Replacement (n.) A person or thing that takes or can take the place of another [syn: {substitute}, {replacement}].
Replacement (n.) Filling again by supplying what has been used up [syn: {refilling}, {replenishment}, {replacement}, {renewal}].
Replacement (n.) A person who follows next in order; "he was President Lincoln's successor" [syn: {successor}, {replacement}].
Replait (v. t.) To plait or fold again; to fold, as one part over another, again and again.
Replant (v. t.) To plant again.
Replantable (a.) That may be planted again.
Replantation (n.) The act of planting again; a replanting.
Replead (v. t. & i.) To plead again.
Repleader (n.) A second pleading, or course of pleadings; also, the right of pleading again.
Replenished (imp. & p. p.) of Replenish.
Replenishing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Replenish.
Replenish (v. t.) . 把……裝滿；把……再備足，補充 [（+with）]；給……添加燃料；【古】使住滿人 To fill again after having been diminished or emptied; to stock anew; hence, to fill completely; to cause to abound.
Multiply and replenish the earth. -- Gen. i. 28.
The waters thus with fish replenished, and the air with fowl. -- Milton.
Replenish (v. t.) To finish; to complete; to perfect. [Obs.]
We smothered The most replenished sweet work of nature. -- Shak.
Replenish (v. i.) To recover former fullness. [Obs.]
The humors will not replenish so soon. -- Bacon.
Replenish (v.) Fill something that had previously been emptied; "refill my glass, please" [syn: replenish, refill, fill again].
Replenisher (n.) 補充者；補充物；【攝】顯影劑 One who replenishes.
Replenishment (n.) 再裝滿；補充；充滿 The act of replenishing, or the state of being replenished.
Replenishment (n.) That which replenishes; supply. -- Cowper.
Replenishment (n.) Filling again by supplying what has been used up [syn: refilling, replenishment, replacement, renewal].
Replete (v. t.) To fill completely, or to satiety. [R.]
Replete (a.) 充滿的，裝滿的；充斥的 [（+with）] [Z]； 充實的，詳盡的，完備的 [（+in/ with）] Filled again; completely filled; full; charged; abounding. "His words replete with guile." -- Milton.
When he of wine was replet at his feast. -- Chaucer.
In heads replete with thoughts of other men. -- Cowper.
Replete (a.) Filled to satisfaction with food or drink; "a full stomach" [syn: full, replete(p)].
Replete (a.) (Followed by `with') Deeply filled or permeated; "imbued with the spirit of the Reformation"; "words instinct with love"; "it is replete with misery" [syn: instinct(p), replete(p)].
Replete (v.) Fill to satisfaction; "I am sated" [syn: satiate, sate, replete, fill].
Compare: Satiate
Satiate (a.) 吃飽的；厭膩的Filled to satiety; glutted; sated; -- followed by with or of. "Satiate of applause." -- Pope.
Satiate (v. t.) [imp. & p. p. Satiated; p. pr. & vb. n. Satiating.] 使飽足；【罕】使充分滿足；使多給而厭膩To satisfy the appetite or desire of; to feed to the full; to furnish enjoyment to, to the extent of desire; to sate; as, to satiate appetite or sense.
These [smells] rather woo the sense than satiate it. -- Bacon.
I may yet survive the malice of my enemies, although they should be satiated with my blood. – Eikon Basilike.
Satiate (v. t.) To full beyond natural desire; to gratify to repletion or loathing; to surfeit; to glut.
Satiate (v. t.) To saturate. [Obs.] -- Sir I. Newton.
Syn: To satisfy; sate; suffice; cloy; gorge; overfill; surfeit; glut.
Usage: Satiate, Satisfy, Content. These words differ principally in degree. To content is to make contented, even though every desire or appetite is not fully gratified. To satisfy is to appease fully the longings of desire. To satiate is to fill so completely that it is not possible to receive or enjoy more; hence, to overfill; to cause disgust in.
Content with science in the vale of peace. -- Pope.
His whole felicity is endless strife; No peace, no satisfaction, crowns his life. -- Beaumont.
He may be satiated, but not satisfied. -- Norris.
Satiate (a.) Supplied (especially fed) to satisfaction [syn: satiate, satiated] [ant: insatiable, insatiate, unsatiable].
Satiate (v.) Fill to satisfaction; "I am sated" [syn: satiate, sate, replete, fill].
Satiate (v.) Overeat or eat immodestly; make a pig of oneself; "She stuffed herself at the dinner"; "The kids binged on ice cream" [syn: gorge, ingurgitate, overindulge, glut, englut, stuff, engorge, overgorge, overeat, gormandize, gormandise, gourmandize, binge, pig out, satiate, scarf out].
Repletes (n.) 【昆】蜜蟻；蜜壺蟻；蜜罐蟻；貯蜜蟻 [C] Honey ant (or Honeypot ant).
Compare: Plerergates
Plerergates (n.) Repletes.
Compare: Rotunds
Rotunds (n.) Repletes.
Repleteness (n.) The state of being replete.
Repletion (n.) The state of being replete; superabundant fullness.
The tree had too much repletion, and was oppressed with its own sap. -- Bacon.
Repleccioun [overeating] ne made her never sick. -- Chaucer.
Repletion (n.) (Med.) Fullness of blood; plethora.
Repletion (n.) The state of being satisfactorily full and unable to take on more [syn: repletion, satiety, satiation].
Repletion (n.) Eating until excessively full [syn: repletion, surfeit].
Repletive (a.) Tending to make replete; filling. -- Re*ple"tive*ly, adv.
Repletory (a.) Repletive. [R.]
Repleviable (a.) (Law) Capable of being replevied.
Replevin (v. t.) (Law) To replevy.
Replevin (n.) (Law) A personal action which lies to recover possession of goods and chattle wrongfully taken or detained. Originally, it was a remedy peculiar to cases for wrongful distress, but it may generally now be brought in all cases of wrongful taking or detention. --Bouvier.
Replevin (n.) The writ by which goods and chattels are replevied.
Replevin, () remedies. The name of an action for the recovery of goods and chattels.
Replevin, () It will be proper to consider, 1. For what property this action will lie. 2. What interest the plaintiff must have in the same. 3. For what injury. 4. The pleadings. 5. The judgment.
Replevin, () To support replevin, the property affected must be a personal chattel, and not an injury to the freehold, or to any matter which is annexed to it; 4 T. R. 504; nor for anything which has been turned into a chattel by having been separated from it by the defendant, and carried away at one and the same time; 2 Watts, R. 126; 3 S. & R. 509 6 S. & R. 4761; 10 S. & R. 114; 6 Greenl. R. 427; nor for writings which concern the realty. 1 Brownl. 168.
Replevin, () The chattel also must possess indicia or ear-marks, by which it may be distinguished from all others of the same description; otherwise the plaintiff would be demanding of the law what it has not in its power to bestow; replevin for loose money cannot, therefore, be maintained; but it may be supported for money tied up in a bag, and taken in that state from the plaintiff. 2 Mod. R. 61. Vide 1 Dall. 157; 6 Binn. 2; 3 Serg. & Rawle, 562; 2 P. A. Browne's R. 160; Addis. R. 134; 10 Serg. & Rawle, 114; 4 Dall. Appx. i.; 2 Watt's R. 126; 2 Rawle's R. 423.
Replevin, () The plaintiff, at the time of the caption, must have been possessed, or, which amounts to the same thing, have had an absolute property in and be entitled to the possession of the chattel, or it could not have been taken from him. He must, in other words, have had a general property, or a special property, as the bailee of the goods. His right to the possession must also be continued down to the time of judgment pronounced, otherwise he has no claim to the restoration of the property. Co. Litt. 145, b. It has however, been doubted whether on a more naked tailment for safe keeping, the bailee can maintain replevin. 1 John. R. 380; 3 Serg. & Rawle, 20.
Replevin, () This action lies to recover any goods which have been illegally taken. 7 John R. 140; 5 Mass. R. 283; 14 John. R. 87; 1 Dall. R. 157; 6 Binn. R. 2; 3 Serg. & Rawle, 562; Addis. R. 134; 1 Mason, 319; 2 Fairf. 28. The primary object of this action, is to recover back the chattel itself, and damages for taking and detaining it are consequent on the recovery. 1 W. & S. 513; 20 Wend. 172; 3 Shepl. 20. When the properly has been restored this action cannot, therefore, be maintained. But the chattel is considered as detained, notwithstanding the defendant may have destroyed it before the suit was commenced; for he cannot take advantage of his own wrong.
Replevin, () This being a local action, the declaration requires certainty in the description of the place where the distress was taken. 2 Chit: Pl. 411, 412; 10 John. R. 53. But it has been held in Pennsylvania, that the declaration is sufficient, if the taking is laid to be in the county. 1 P. A. Browne's Rep. 60. The strictness which formerly prevailed on this subject, has been relaxed. 2 Saund. 74, b. When the distress has been taken for rent, the defendant usually avows or makes cognizance, in order to obtain a return of the goods to which avowry or cognizance the plaintiff pleads in bar, or the defendant may, in proper cases, plead non cepit, cepit in alio loco, guilty. 1 Chit. Pl. 490, 491.
Replevin, () As to the judgment, Vide article Judgment in Replevin. Vide, generally, Bac. Ab. h.t.; 1 Saund. 347, n. 1; 2 Sell. Pr. 153; Doct. Pl. 414; Com. Dig. h.t.; Dane's Ab. h.t.; Petersd. Ab. h.t.; 18 Vin. Ab. 576; Yelv. 146, a; 1 Chit., Pl. 157; Ham. N. P. ch. 3, p. 372 to 498; Amer. Dig. h.t.; Harr. Dig. h.t.; Bouv. Inst. Index, h.t. As to the evidence required in replevin, see Roscoe's Civ. Ev. 353. Vide, also, article Detinuit.
Replevisable (a.) Repleviable. -- Sir M. Hale.
Replevied (imp. & p. p.) of Replevy.
Replevying (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Replevy.